DOCUMENTARIES

"There is no such thing as objective journalism.
The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."

Hunter S. Thompson



THE SON OF THE NAZI
Bernd Wollschlaeger grows up in peaceful postwar Germany. When he learns about his father´s past as a Nazi war hero, he breaks with his family and converts to Judaism.
THE JEWISH LOBBY
The Jewish lobby controls Wall Street, Hollywood, the media, and it is the puppet master behind America’s foreign policy. The myths and legends about the influence of Judaism are unparalleled. An all-powerful Jewish lobby is the stereotype for anti Semitic prejudice and conspiracy theories par excellence. But the Jewish lobby exists. Its playing field is Washington D.C., where lobbyism is as American as baseball or apple pie.
ONE LAST SHOT
“One Last Shot” tells the story of the life and death of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, one of the best war cameramen of his generation. Born and raised in Hebron, Palestine, he became a fighter for Press freedom, and in 2001 was awarded the prestigious “International Press Freedom Award” in New York.
TEL AVIV'S
AFRICAN REFUGEES
On the way to the Promised Land they went through hell, the refugees from Darfur, Eritrea or Nigeria , who crossed Egypt‘s Sinai peninsula to find shelter in Israel. At home many of them barely escaped genocide, persecution, rape and violence. Now Israel is planning to shut them out.
CROSSFIRE
January 2009. Gaza is in ruins. The war between Israel and the Hamas claimed 1.300 casualties. Palestinians, Amnesty International and the UN is accusing Israel of war crimes. Tsahal, Israel‘s Defence Forces, defends itself by claiming to be "the most moral army in the world", but finds itself in an international crossfire.
CEASEFIRE
Ceasefire begins with the fact that a small number of hardened criminals commit a hugely disproportionate number of serious violent crimes. The police would identify gang members who were on parole or probation and compel them to attend a meeting, the Call-In. There, the cops would demand that the shootings end.
THE LAST NAZI HUNTER
$ 10.000 Reward. Wanted: the last Nazi war criminals. `Operation Last Chance´ is the Simon Wiesenthal Center´s latest and last attempt to bring murderers to justice. For the first time Ephraim Zuroff, the Center´s last Nazi hunter, is offering head money.
YESSIR, THIS IS KOSHER
Café Bleibergs is smack in the middle of Berlin, a haven of "Yiddishkeit", as the Jews would say, something like Jewish heart and soul. Here nobody really cares about how normal Jewish life in Germany is 60 years after the Holocaust, leat of all the owner.
JERUSALEM'S HOLY SITES: THE AL AQSA MOSQUE
King Salomon´s temple was towering over the city of Jerusalem 2000 years ago. Today the Al Aqsa Mosque has taken its place. At least that is what most historians agree upon. But the Islamic world begs to differ, first and foremost the Palestinian Muslims.
JERUSALEM'S HOLY SITES: THE CHURCH OF
THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
Jerusalem means ‘City of Peace‘. "A bad joke", says Adel Abu Nader Barakat, whose family owns a shop right next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus Christ is supposed to be buried.
JERUSALEM'S HOLY SITES: THE WESTERN WALL
In a red coat the man with the white beard and the big belly would look like Santa Claus. But Mordechai Halevy proudly calls himself "The Western Wall Man". He is around 70 years old, claims to be "60ish" and has been spending the past 35 years at the Western Wall, come rain or shine.
CHEFS FOR PEACE
„We are Christian, Muslim, and Jewish chefs. Armed to the teeth, with the sharpest knives we come to the kitchen", says Kevork Alemian, Maitre d´Hotel in the legendary American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, and adds, tongue in cheek: "but with those sharp knifes we are not slaughtering each other, but cooking for peace."
SAVE A CHILD’S HEART
„Save a child’s heart“ is one of the most ambitious projects of the peace process. In the past ten years a team of Israeli cardiologists have saved more than 1.600 children’s lives, most of them Palestinians.
NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE
IN THE U.S.?
Uravan in Southwestern Colorado was the biggest uranium mining town in the US . Then it was torn down by the government. Every last tree in town was shredded and buried. Uravan was too contaminated. Many miners died from small lung cancer. Despite that, Colorado today is hoping for a comeback of the Uranium industry.
THE WAR OF
ABRAHAMS CHILDREN
Sheikh Shafiq Kawasme is an Islamic preacher in Hebron, a stronghold of the radical Hamas movement. His youngest son accidentally blew himself up while preparing an explosive belt for a suicide bomber. But the preacher knows no regrets.
PALESTINIAN AIRLINES
Palestinian Airlines used to be the pride of Yassir Arafat. Today it is the only national airline worldwide without a state or even an airport. They aren´t even allowed to fly over their own country. And still they´re operating. How?
THE KLEZMER KING OF BERLIN
Jossif Gofenberg is Berlin´s undisputed king of Klezmer music. Born in Czernowitz, Jossif, a Russian Jew, a virtuoso accordeon player, is most of all a living bridge between Jews and Germans.
WITH A SMILE & A TEAR
Once a week they get together for coffee and cake in Frankfurt - thirty or forty elderly Jewish ladies and gentlemen, who have survived the Holocaust and, despite all the pain, decided to live in Germany.